👉no matter how you find out, you'll likely feel sad or angry or be in disbelief (after all, you put your time, energy & heart into your book!)
👉sometimes you'll have opportunities to buy copies at a discounted cost, perhaps purchasing all remaining copies to sell yourself
👉if it's in your contract, you can request (from your publisher) that the rights revert to you
👉if you have the rights, you may resell, repurpose, reuse your text (e.g. sell to another publisher, independently publish your book, publish it as part of a larger work such as in an anthology…)
👉you can look at it as a setback to turn into a success by writing another book!
👉if used copies of your book are still available for purchase, you can be happy that they can still reach audiences.
💕 I loved my 1st picture book, THIS LITTLE PIGGY'S BOOK OF MANNERS! I enjoyed working with my editor (Christy Ottaviano), adored the collage illustrations (by Nancy Wolff), was excited to be published by Henry Holt, & had a blast doing school visits on the topic of manners!
The book had wonderful reviews & was even a Children's Book of the Month Club selection. After many successful years, when the book went out of print, I was disheartened to say the least.
But that didn't stop me from writing another manners book (still in process). It didn't stop me from writing at all.
And now, b4 this caption steals all of my writing time today, I'd best get back to work!
*(my POV is as a traditionally published author as I haven't yet independently published a book)